Willy Lages

Willy Paul Franz Lages (5 October 1901 – 2 April 1971) was the German chief of the Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam during the Second World War.

From March 1941 he led the so-called Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Bureau for the Jewish Emigration).

As such, he was complicit in the mass deportations of 70,000 Dutch Jews to the concentration camps in Germany and occupied Poland.

This was opposed by the Dutch Cabinet, and there were large public protests against the possibility of amnesty for Lages.

[4] Lages received medical treatment in Germany after which he lived for another five years in Braunlage (Harz).